Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Pagaya is seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join their core engineering team in Tel Aviv. The engineer will work on Pagaya's flagship product, a critical, high-availability backend system serving numerous external partners. This role involves continuously refactoring, decoupling, and scaling production services to ensure exceptional reliability, performance, and scalability.

The Senior Backend Engineer will play a key part in improving system architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and enhancing API integrations with partners. They will also implement best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security, fostering a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve backend APIs, ensuring they are scalable, well-documented, and performant.
• Design and implement robust backend services that handle high traffic and complex data interactions.
• Improve system architecture by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver high-quality features.
• Enhance API integrations with partners, ensuring seamless data exchanges and reliability.
• Implement best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Fostering a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain critical production backend services for our flagship product.
• Continuously refactor and decouple large backend systems into smaller, modular, and scalable components.
• Design, implement, and document reliable, performant APIs consumed by dozens of external partners.
• Monitor, debug, and maintain the health and availability of our production environment.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend development experience with a strong focus on APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Python.
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Strong grasp of scalability, and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization.
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing).
• Solid foundation in software engineering best practices, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to debug, optimize, and maintain complex backend systems.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

The role offers: